Six Days of War
Subtitle: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 18, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780195151749
First sentence: NIGHTTIME, DECEMBER 31, 1964-A squad of Palestinian guerrillas crosses from Lebanon into northern Israel.
Description: "In Israel and the West it is called the Six-Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Setback." Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen and largely unwanted by both sides, so transformed the world.

The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the intifada and the rise of Palestinian terror: all are part of the outcome of those six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in the summer of 1967.".

"Drawing on thousands of top-secret documents, on rare papers in Russian and Arabic, and on exclusive personal interviews, Six Days of War recreates the regional and international context which, by the late 1960s, virtually assured an Arab-Israeli conflagration.

Also examined are the domestic crises in each of the battling states, and the extraordinary personalities - Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Hafez al-Assad and Yitzhak Rabin, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin - that precipitated this earthshaking clash."--BOOK JACKET.